At out train club we have expanded our garden railway area, so just finished putting in a 2 rail O scale loop of track and this is the first run. We have expanded the area for wider radius curves, and the addition of an operating G scale model of a Rail lift bridge, a couple of miles from the real rail bridge. The track we are using for this loop is G scale narrow gauge track that is the same width as O scale. While the rails and ties are certainly not O scale in profile they give a good solid wide base to operate trains. I still need to work on smoothing out some of the curves and adding more ballast but here is the result after a couple of days work running the rail through a rail bender, then feeding it through the ties. The wider radius should be enough to run my largest scale 2 rail steam engines, which have been waiting a few years for wide radius track (after a 2 rail scale layout we used to run on closed). For the first test run today; running a Weaver Canadian Pacific Empress engine and 3 Golden Gate Canadian Pacific Passenger cars. The larger island of tracks in the distance are all G scale.
Will be adding some of my Atlas O Gauge outdoor track in the middle of the area so can run shorter wheelbase 2 or 3 rail engines here. Will spike in a middle rail to this 2 rail loop so we can run 2 or 3 rail. And the green G scale Bridge will connect to main island and a mountain railway.
